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Cognitive Vulnerability to Depressive Symptoms in Children: The Protective Role of Self-efficacy Beliefs in a Multi-Wave Longitudinal Study

Auteurs: Patrizia Steca, J. R. Z. Abela, D. Monzani, A. Greco, N. A. Hazel, B. L. Hankin

Gepubliceerd in: Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology | Uitgave 1/2014

Abstract

The current multi-wave longitudinal study on childhood examined the role that social and academic self-efficacy beliefs and cognitive vulnerabilities play in predicting depressive symptoms in response to elevations in idiographic stressors. Children (N = 554; males: 51.4 %) attending second and third grade completed measures of depressive symptoms, negative cognitive styles, negative life events, and academic and social self-efficacy beliefs at four time-points over 6 months. Results showed that high levels of academic and social self-efficacy beliefs predicted lower levels of depressive symptoms, whereas negative cognitive styles about consequences predicted higher depression. Furthermore, children reporting higher social self-efficacy beliefs showed a smaller elevation in levels of depressive symptoms when reporting an increases in stress than children with lower social self-efficacy beliefs. Findings point to the role of multiple factors in predicting children’s depression in the long term and commend the promotion of self-efficacy beliefs and the modification of cognitive dysfunctional styles as relevant protective factors.

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Across the four time-points the correlations between fluctuations in hassles and raw score of hassles were positive but moderate, ranging from 0.55 to 0.66. Therefore, we specified a second model with raw scores of hassles instead of fluctuations in hassles; this latter model yielded similar results. The only reported difference was a significant interaction of cognitive style about consequences and hassles in predicting depressive symptoms (b = 0.38; p < 0.05). Moreover, in order to better distinguish between the effect of within-subject and between-subject effect of hassles, we specified a third model including also an interaction of individual average of hassles score across the four time-points; this model yielded similar results: the interaction between change in hassles and social self-efficacy beliefs was significant, whereas the interaction between average score of hassles and social self-efficacy beliefs was not.

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Titel: Cognitive Vulnerability to Depressive Symptoms in Children: The Protective Role of Self-efficacy Beliefs in a Multi-Wave Longitudinal Study
Auteurs: Patrizia Steca
J. R. Z. Abela
D. Monzani
A. Greco
N. A. Hazel
B. L. Hankin
Publicatiedatum: 01-01-2014
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology / Uitgave 1/2014
Print ISSN: 2730-7166
Elektronisch ISSN: 2730-7174
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-013-9765-5

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